Jean Joseph Maurice Dartigue

Jean Joseph Maurice Dartigue (1903–1983) was a Haitian public official and educational reformer.

From 1927 through 1928, he traveled to the United States to begin working towards a master's degree at Teachers College, Columbia University.

[2] In 1934, the final year of the United States occupation of Haiti, Dartigue was named Director of Rural Education.

[1] In this role, Dartigue served as vice president for the corporate entity Société haitiano-américaine de développement agricole.

This was a joint venture between the United States of America and Haiti during World War II to expand wartime production of rubber in the Haitian countryside.

[7] The Jean Joseph Maurice Dartigue Papers, consisting of records pertaining to the Société haitiano-américaine de développement agricole, are indexed by the Library of Congress.

[8] His son, John Dartigue, was an executive and vice president of publicity at Warner Brothers.